Apropos of Nothing

(This doesn't represent today's writing assignment)

Last night I was out with friends and I had to go to the bathroom. There was some stranger in one of the toilet stalls. I stepped up to the urinal next to it to do my business.

A voice floated over the toilet stall partition. "Your shoe is untied," the stranger said.

I looked down. Sure enough my left shoe, which was visible to the guy in the stall, was unlaced. Having some stranger in the bathroom point this out to me made me grumpy.

"Yeah, well, your pants are down," I popped off. I then beat a hasty retreat.

I consider this to be a fairly Zen exchange.

Chili

We had a really beautiful series of days last week, and I found myself at loose ends with not much that I needed to be doing. I had a good time getting caught up on my movies, I finished up some half-completed carpentry jobs around the house, and I also renewed my driver’s license. After all that I still found myself with a spare afternoon, however, and I really wanted to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and cool weather. So, I headed down to the convention center and bought a ticket for the Intergalactic Chili Cook-off.

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